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About American TCM Association

The American TCM Association (ATCMA) is a no-profit 501(c) 3 organization registered in United States Internal Revenue Service. Its mission is to promote public health. Its objectives are to ally Chinese Medicine specialties in the United States to build an academic professional organization that has the most extensive coverage of Chinese Medicine, and to extend membership coverage to all Chinese Medicine specialties across the world. Its tasks are to develop, define, and implement industrial and professional standards in Chinese Medicine, acupuncture treatment modalities; To establish academic oriented professional committees for the improvement of overall academic levels of Chinese Medicine in United States. To propagate the Traditional Chinese Medicine and let the public understand more about the benefit of acupuncture, in order to promote universal health awareness; To protect interests of the industry and members and provide legal advice and assistances; To engage in political activities and policy making; To promote comprehensive legislations of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in the United States. To organize professional trainings and issue specialty certifications; To host academic seminars and conferences; To edit and publish academic books and magazines etc.; To recognize outstanding professionals in their achievements in acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, and grant them professional titles; To lead clinical research projects in acupuncture and Chinese Medicine; To initiate domestic and international TCM collaborations, aimed to bridge TCM information exchanges among United States and other countries in the world; To certify Chinese Herbal dispensers, acupuncture supplier and clinics.

The American TCM Association (ATCMA) is a no-profit 501(c) 3 organization registered in United States Internal Revenue Service. Its mission is to promote public health. Its objectives are to ally Chinese Medicine specialties in the United States to build an academic professional organization that has the most extensive coverage of Chinese Medicine, and to extend membership coverage to all Chinese Medicine specialties across the world. Its tasks are to develop, define, and implement industrial and professional standards in Chinese Medicine, acupuncture treatment modalities; To establish academic oriented professional committees for the improvement of overall academic levels of Chinese Medicine in United States. To propagate the Traditional Chinese Medicine and let the public understand more about the benefit of acupuncture, in order to promote universal health awareness; To protect interests of the industry and members and provide legal advice and assistances; To engage in political activities and policy making; To promote comprehensive legislations of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in the United States. To organize professional trainings and issue specialty certifications; To host academic seminars and conferences; To edit and publish academic books and magazines etc.; To recognize outstanding professionals in their achievements in acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, and grant them professional titles; To lead clinical research projects in acupuncture and Chinese Medicine; To initiate domestic and international TCM collaborations, aimed to bridge TCM information exchanges among United States and other countries in the world; To certify Chinese Herbal dispensers, acupuncture supplier and clinics.

The conference is postponed to the fall of 2021 due to the coronavirus. See you next year!

The 6th American TCM Congress and China-US Traditional Chinese Medicine Forum will be sponsored by American TCM Association (ATCMA), TCM American Alumni Association (TCMAAA) and China Association of Chinese Medicine (CACM), and presented by East West Healing Center and American Alumni Association of Gansu University of TCM, ATCMA Acupuncture Academic Committee, ATCMA Orthopedics Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Academic Committee, ATCMA Medical Qi Gong and Tai Chi Academic Committee. It will be co-organized by the Illinois Society of Acupuncturists (ILSA) and Asian American Acupuncture Association (AAAA). In this Congress, we will be inviting the professors, doctors, and experts from China as well as the United States to share their experience and study of TCM. Special topics include Dunhuang medicine (敦煌医药学), Tibetan medicine (藏医药), and Prof. Zheng Kuishan's acupuncture technique (郑魁山教授针法). These topics are unique to Gansu University of Chinese Medicine.

COVID-19

During the global pandemic of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the acupuncture clinic in the United States will resume work with the degree of epidemic control in each state after the peak period in the United States. It is
unavoidable to contact patients with COVID-19 in the clinic after the resumption.
We have established the guidelines for each American acupuncture practitioner to
create a qualified epidemic prevention environment to resume the work of the
Acupuncture Clinic.

To our patients with fever / respiratory symptoms:
If you have NOT traveled to an area of the world with sustained
community transmission of COVID-19 within 14 days of feeling sick,
YOU SHOULD FOLLOW the same steps that you would take if you
thought you had the flu. This includes staying home from work / school,
unless you feel that you need medical attention

It is not recommended that American acupuncture clinics in the United States treat patients for the new COVID-19 (COVID-19) disease independently but are encouraged to cooperate with medical providers provided by US infectious disease laws and the CDC by participating in the overall treatment

In recent decades, acupuncture has been used more widely and extensively in the United States (U.S.). However, there have been no national surveys or analyzes reported in academic journals on the number of practicing or licensed acupuncturists. This study was conducted to identify the approximate number of licensed acupuncturists active in 2015. The Board of Acupuncture or Board of Medicine in each state or U.S. territory was contacted to collect data. Online license information searching was also performed in order to get accurate numbers of licensed acupuncturists for those states in which a board was unable to be contacted. The study found that the number of licensed acupuncturists in 2015 in the U.S. was 34 481. Of this, more than 50% were licensed in three states alone: California (32.39%), New York (11.89%) and Florida (7.06%). The number of licensed acupuncturists increased 23.30%, and 52.09%, compared to the year 2009 (n = 27 965) and 2004 (n = 22 671), respectively; increasing about 1 266 per year. There were 62 and 10 accredited acupuncture institutions providing master’s and doctoral degrees, respectively. The West Coast comprised 51.39% of degree granting programs, while the East Coast comprised 29.17%; together the coastal states housed more than 80% of all programs, with the remainder sprinkled across the southern (9.72%), northern (8.33%), and the middle/central states (1.39%). Forty-four states and the District of Columbia regulated acupuncture practice by law at the time of data collection. Acupuncture continues to be a quickly growing profession in the U.S.

The American Traditional Chinese Medicine Association (ATCMA) and Traditional Chinese Medicine Alumni Association (TCMAAA) hosted the 3rd ATCMA Congress just outside the nation’s capital on September 16th and 17th 2017. The lively event was attended by over 300 including multiple esteemed presenters and researchers from China and international practitioners. Two tracks were offered in advanced acupuncture needling demonstrations and a research and educational forum to discuss trending topics. Modern researches, the importance of Acupoint specificity and need to preserve traditional aspects of theory and needling brought together the East and West.

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American TCM Association (ATCMA) needs your support, we are the I.R .S approved non for profit 501(c)3 organization,
your donation is great appreciated and you will get a donation certificate for tax purpose, thank you.